(3)the commitments to grant loans at an interest rate which is lower than the market interest rate.

In cases where imported goods, to which contractual tariff rate or preferential tariff rate is applicable are subject to temporary rate, the lower tariff rate shall apply.

This is attributable to the lower rate of increase in real GDP.

As expected, the rate of reported convictions, which varied significantly, was lower than the rate of reported investigations or prosecutions.

They had a lower rate of school dropouts and a better academic performance than men.

The answer depends on two key variables the discount rate and future earnings growth. A lower discount rate and or a higher rate of expected earnings growth would justify higher equity valuations.

This is an even lower response rate than that obtained for the fifth and sixth quinquennial surveys.

The basic finding is that the contraceptive prevalence rate is lower among rural women compared to urban women.

The rate of access of rural women to the land is still lower in the Program Ballot of the Land.

Several States reported on the rate of prosecutions during the past year, which, as expected, was lower than the number of investigations.

The variance between the initial and revised estimates is due to the lower rate of implementation with regards to the outreach programme.

Excluding China, there was a general slowdown in growth of service imports by developing countries, mirroring a lower growth rate in their exports.

Or China can try to maintain an exchange rate that is slightly lower than it would be otherwise. If the IMF is to be evenhanded, should it criticize America s farm policies or China s exchange rate policies?

Eleven children died during the Trovan trial, and others were left permanently disabled. Still, the death rate in the Trovan trial was much lower than the rate from untreated meningitis, bolstering the case for administering untested Ebola drugs today.

Based on these trends and assuming a constant labor participation rate China s potential growth rate over the next decade is likely to hover around 6.9 7.6 , averaging 7.27 . This may be much lower than the 9.4 average growth rate in 1988 2013, but it is more than adequate by global standards.

Traveller (nomadic) women had a higher mortality rate, lower life expectancy and stillbirth and infant mortality rates nearly triple those of the population as a whole.

Like most other central banks confronted with the recession, the SNB has reduced its policy interest rate all the way to the zero lower bound. Once there, traditional monetary policy becomes impotent, as the interest rate tool is no longer usable.

No less important are sex education programmes, aimed at reducing the number of teen pregnancies and at bringing the Nicaraguan people, especially young people, to a point where the demographic growth rate is lower than the rate of economic growth.

It is a monetary instrument that the central bank must rely on when its policy interest rate has hit the zero lower bound and thus cannot be pushed lower. The debt level of the government is irrelevant to the decision to use it.

Bank interest rates on savings are lower than the inflation rate and many multiples lower than the rates promised by the informal sector. Default rates in the informal sector are high, and lenders may disappear with depositors money, as happened in Wenzhou.

In paragraph 164 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's recommendation that it institute adequate segregation of duties within the Atlas system to lower the risk of fraud and error.

The unemployment rate has dropped to 5 , just above the Fed s current median estimate for the non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU). While the true NAIRU level is probably lower, and we are likely witnessing a secular decline in the workforce participation rate, the US labor market should still tighten in 2016.

All of this implies that if the economy is at full employment and targeted inflation, the federal funds rate should equal 2 plus the rate of inflation. It should be higher if the inflation rate is above the target level and lower if current GDP is less than the full employment level.

Cumulative growth rate of fixed asset investment in December is forecast to be at 7.2 , unchanged from the previous month, but lower than that a year ago.

In addition, a changing demographic structure has created more single person households and one child families as a result of our lower birth rate and ageing population.

Furthermore, the reductions under common staff costs reflect both the realized vacancy rates described above and the lower than budgeted actual rate of common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

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The day after Black Monday, Minister of Economy Alexey Ulyukaev said that the CBR should have increased interest rates sooner. This immediately raised suspicion that the CBR delayed the interest rate hike in order to complete the deal at the lower rate.

Using RMB appreciation as the primary tool to fight inflation implies accepting a temporarily higher unemployment rate now in exchange for a permanently lower unemployment rate in the future. This is because manufactured exports are typically more labor intensive than investment projects.

The decrease under this heading is attributable to reduced requirements under common staff costs arising from lower actual common staff costs than projected ( 2,795,700) offset by increased requirements under salaries ( 2,605,200) owing to the lower than budgeted vacancy rate realized for the Professional category.

What demographers call the Total Fertility Rate is the average number of live births per woman over her lifetime. In the long run, a population is said to be stable if the TFR is at the replacement rate, which is a little above 2.3 for the world as a whole, and somewhat lower, at 2.1, for developed countries, reflecting their lower infant mortality rates.

For example, the schooling rate for girls with a disability aged 7 14 years old is 6 lower than that of not disabled girls of the same age.

Currently, the infant mortality rate in Shanghai has dropped to 3.71 , which is significantly lower than the national average level and has reached the advanced level of developed countries.

A total of 4 candidates participated in this election, and the voting rate was 63.24 , which was 0.89 lower than that of the Election of Okinawa Governor in 2014.

Thus, the Fed s 2 inflation objective was born. During the ensuing discussion, several FOMC members argued that the inflation rate might be reduced to less than 2 , but nobody argued that inflation should be pushed higher if a lower, but still positive, rate was achieved.

Higher levels of educational attainment improve overall economic wellbeing and prosperity, lower retirement burdens, and enhance social mobility and satisfaction. The unemployment rate for college graduates in the US, at 2.5 , is roughly one third the rate for those without a high school diploma.

Few would argue against China s need for slower but better growth. The problem is that if China wishes to lower the GDP growth rate to 7.5 in 2012, from 9.2 in 2011, without worsening the growth pattern by raising the high investment rate even further, the annual growth rate of investment must be equal to or less than 7.5 .

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The overall CPI is actually slightly lower now than it was a year ago, implying a negative inflation rate. A major reason is the decline in gasoline and other energy prices.

To prevent this, the eurozone needs a risk free interest rate. The struggling economies need lower borrowing costs, or they will suffocate economically (and political support for eurozone membership will evaporate).

The utilization of working hours among rural women at working age has increased rather slowly, 73.71 in 2000, 75.25 in 2002 and 77.74 in 2003, lower than the overall rate of 77.94 .

The response rate for the third reporting period (2002 2004) was lower than that for the second reporting period (2000 2002) but similar to that for the first reporting period (1998 2000).

The age standardized mortality rate for women of all ages fell to 2.2 per 100,000 women in 2003, much lower than the pre screening programme peak of 5.0 per 100,000 in 1985.

Although the literacy rate is still lower in comparison with the urban population, the progress occurred in the last decade in terms of the average number of years of schooling is undeniable.

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